David Markson Quotes

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• Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to…
• Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
• In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
• I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.
• What do any of us ever truly know?
• Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying…
• You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
• You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane…
• Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the…
• Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
• The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
• Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
• Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

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